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    In Roman times, Larinum (today Larino) was a thriving and large settlement of ancient origin, located in the hills of the hinterland at an altitude of...
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    Larino (Campobassan dialect: Larìnə; Latin: Larinum) is a town and comune of approximately 8,100 inhabitants in Molise, province of Campobasso, southern...
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    during the reign of Tiberius, this prohibition was extended under the Larinum Decree to include the equestrian order and all citizen women. Henceforth...
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    (218 to 204 BC), by mints at Luceria (mod. Lucera), Teate (mod. Chieti), Larinum (mod. Larino), and northern Apulia. After the defeat of Cannae during the...
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  • defense of a man named Aulus Cluentius Habitus Minor. Cluentius, from Larinum in Samnium, was accused in 69 BC by his mother Sassia of having poisoned...
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    between male citizens and working or retired prostitutes was banned. The Larinum decree of Tiberius forbade the public degradation of aristocrats and their...
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    was cowardly because he failed to confront the Carthaginian forces. Near Larinum in Samnium, Hannibal had taken up position in a town called Geronium. In...
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    Aquilonia). They may have later been joined by the Frentani (capital Larinum, the modern Larino). The earliest written record of the people is a treaty...
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    further agricultural and urban development. This change was most drastic in Larinum. The city began as a major grain producer with a mill and a threshing floor...
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    (Colletorto) Larino Cathedral Archeological site and Roman theater of Larinum (Larino) Archeological site and museum of Altilia (Sepino) Italic sanctuary...
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  • Cluentio, tells that a certain Oppianicus was sent by Sulla to the city of Larinum, where he murdered four proscribed municipal councillors. The councillors...
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    is considerable discrepancy in the statements of ancient geographers: Larinum, with its territory (extending from the Tifernus (modern Biferno) to the...
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  • cavalry was levied from the equites, and from volunteers of the second property class, until the early 1st century BC. Bronze quincunx from Larinum mint....
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    to volunteer because "the prohibition was no use". Under Tiberius, the Larinum decree (19 AD) reiterated Augustus' original prohibitions. Thereafter,...
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  • The gens Auria was a Roman family at Larinum in southern Italy, known chiefly from Cicero's oration, Pro Cluentio. The Aurii are known to have used the...
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  • from the hills after a few days and set up a new camp in the plain of Larinum to the north of Geronium. The Romans then began harassing the Carthaginian...
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  • located on the road between Larinum and Sipontum, at a crossing of the Fortore river, and was 18 miles (29 km) east of Larinum. The town was called Teate...
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  • inscriptions of this gens are from Casilinum in Campania, while others are from Larinum in Samnium, suggesting an Oscan origin. The nomen Iteius appears to belong...
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    (Lanuvio)) [25] Photograph Larinum Larino Italy 41°48′20″N 14°54′59″E / 41.805529°N 14.916364°E / 41.805529; 14.916364 (Larinum (Larino)) Photograph Legio...
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    Oscan/Lucanian population and a large Daunian element intermixed in different ways. Larinum, a settlement which has produced a large body of Oscan onomastics is described...
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    Oscan/Lucanian population and a large Daunian element intermixed in different ways. Larinum, a settlement which has produced a large body of Oscan onomastics is described...
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  • However, Birley notes Proculus could have had his origins instead in Larinum. Birley also offers two possible relatives for Proculus—Marcus Julius Ro[mu]lus...
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  • Oscan/Lucanian population and a large Daunian element intermixed in different ways. Larinum, a settlement which has produced a large body of Oscan onomastics is described...
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    Republican era. Note helmet with horsehair plume, long spear (hasta), small round shield (parma equestris), flowing mantle. Bronze quincunx from Larinum mint...
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    Florentinuna, Tortibulum, Montem Corvinum, Vulturariam, Civitatem, Draconariam, Larinum, Termulam, Guardiam, Triventum, Boianum, Alifiam, Thelesiam et Sanctam...
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  • general of the Pompeiian forces. The most famous family of the name lived at Larinum, where they and their cousins, the Aurii, fell victim to the machinations...
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  • century BC, and the middle of the first century AD. Gaius Tillius, buried at Larinum in Samnium, in a tomb built by his son, Lucius Tillius Trassa, dating from...
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  • Aulus Cluentius Habitus, a wealthy citizen of Larinum in Samnium, and subject of a Roman cause célèbre. In 74 BC, he accused his stepfather Statius Albius...
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    Verres. Sextus Vibius, a resident of Larinum, was murdered by Oppianicus. Vibius Cappadox, a resident of Larinum, whom Aulus Cluentius Habitus was accused...
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  • Sabine or Samnite origin, and indeed the Albii Oppianici were residents of Larinum in Samnium, although the surname Oppianicus implies that they had some...
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